Opinion
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Why Democrats Are So Bad at Defending Democracy
When it comes to elections, the Republican Party operates within a carapace of lies. So we rely on the Democrats…
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Are We Really Facing a Second Civil War?
Barbara F. Walter, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, has interviewed many people who’ve lived through…
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A Supreme Court Ruling Against Vaccine Mandates Could Be Disastrous for Public Health
On Friday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about two of the Biden administration’s emergency Covid-19 regulations, including a…
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Let Marjorie Taylor Greene Keep Her Social Media Accounts
This past weekend, when Twitter permanently suspended the personal account of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican of Georgia, her…
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One Year After the Jan. 6 Attack, Parler’s C.E.O Grapples with Big Tech and Trump
Produced by ‘Sway’ After an angry mob attacked the Capitol last year and users on the right-leaning social network Parler…
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The G.O.P. Is Making ‘Critical Race Theory’ the New ‘Shariah Law’
The protests of summer 2020 may have been not only some of the biggest in the country, but also some…
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Expecting or Planning? There’s Nothing Magic About Age 35.
Many of the decisions I made around my pregnancies were based on the looming specter of “advanced maternal age,” which…
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Stocks Are Great for the Very Young — and the Very Old
Conventional investing wisdom says that the older you get, the less of your financial assets should be in the stock…
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Jimmy Carter: I Fear for Our Democracy
One year ago, a violent mob, guided by unscrupulous politicians, stormed the Capitol and almost succeeded in preventing the democratic…
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How to Stop Trump and Prevent Another Jan. 6
On Christmas morning, I woke up early and flipped on CNN, where I found the newscaster toggling among three news…